Urban wastewater treatment is called for facing different challenges worldwide, such as energy saving, resource recovery and resue... [edited by Author]

Although traditional materials (steel, concrete, timber and masonry) still dominate the building industry, new materials are constantly being explored by engineers and scientists. For instance, the use of the so-called ...

A methodology to reduce the complexity of the process optimization was applied to multiproduct biorefinery fed by lignocellulosic biomass. A process superstructure was built to consider alternative process pathways to ...

More stringent standards on water quality along with the shortage of vater resources have led to the development of advanced wastewater treatment processes, in order to ensure the respect of discharge limits and the reuse ...

Technologies and, in particular sensors, permeate more and more application sectors. From energy management, to the factories one, to houses, environments, infrastructure, and building monitoring, to healthcare and ...

This thesis concerns with hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is used to investigate the non-linear dynamics of the flow and to obtain the basic states. We develop a new procedure (named ...

In order to mitigate the urban traffic congestion and increase the travelers’ surplus, several policies can be adopted which may be applied in short or long time horizon. With regards to the short term policies, one of the ...

The knowledge of the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic fields is fundamental in the analysis and planning of modern radio communication systems. When the dimensions of the systems are large in terms of the ...

In the last decade, the application of microparticles, nanoparticles and composite microparticles involved several industrial fields. Conventional micronization techniques, such as jet milling, spray drying, liquid antisolvent ...

The purpose of this Ph.D. project was to investigate the potential of the torrefaction treatment for upgrading low-value agro-industrial residues into useable solid fuels to be employed as high-quality energy carriers. The ...